Spotify is certainly monetizing their podcast platform. At least for the Spotify-produced shows, they’re injecting ads regardless of whether you pay for premium service or not.
I had something deployed on fly for a few months and was regularly running into random restarts and connection issues. I ended up switching to DO’s app platform and haven’t seen any of that since.
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